S09: Languages
 
 

2. Names versus languages

 


What's in a name?

  • Like all utterances of language, toponyms consist of words and phonemes (#253).
  • The grammar (#121) of a language provides the structure through which the language and elements thereof (like names) convey meaning.
  • Syntactic rules determine the ways in which the elements of a language may be combined.

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